Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
Who fathered the drops of dew?
New American Standard Bible
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
King James Version
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
International Standard Version
"Does the rain have a father? Who fathered the dew?
A Conservative Version
Has the rain a father? Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
American Standard Version
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Amplified
“Has the rain a father?
Or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Bible in Basic English
Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
Darby Translation
Hath the rain a father? or who begetteth the drops of dew?
Julia Smith Translation
Is there a father to the rain? or who begat the reservoirs of the dew?
King James 2000
Has the rain a father? or who has begotten the drops of dew?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Is there a father for the rain, or who fathered [the] drops of dew?
Modern King James verseion
Has the rain a father? Or who has brought forth the drops of dew?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Who is the father of rain? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
NET Bible
Does the rain have a father, or who has fathered the drops of the dew?
New Heart English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
The Emphasized Bible
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Webster
Hath the rain a father? or who hath begotten the drops of the dew?
World English Bible
Does the rain have a father? Or who fathers the drops of dew?
Youngs Literal Translation
Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 38:28
Prayers for Job 38:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Yahweh Interrogates Job
27
and cause the grass to sprout?
Who fathered the drops of dew?
Who gave birth to the frost of heaven
Names
Cross References
Jeremiah 14:22
Or can the skies alone give showers?
Are You not the Lord our God?
We therefore put our hope in You,
for You have done all these things.
Psalm 147:8
prepares rain for the earth,
and causes grass to grow on the hills.
Genesis 27:28
from the dew of the sky
and from the richness of the land
an abundance of grain and new wine.
Genesis 27:39
Then his father Isaac answered him:
away from the richness of the land,
away from the dew of the sky above.
Deuteronomy 33:13
He said about Joseph:
with the dew of heaven’s bounty
and the watery depths that lie beneath;
Deuteronomy 33:28
Jacob lives untroubled
in a land of grain and new wine;
even his skies drip with dew.
1 Samuel 12:17-18
Isn’t the wheat harvest today?
2 Samuel 1:21
let no dew or rain be on you,
or fields of offerings,
for there the shield of the mighty was defiled
the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
1 Kings 17:1
Now Elijah
Job 5:9-10
wonders without number.
Job 29:19
and the dew will rest on my branches all night.
Job 38:8
when it burst from the womb,
Psalm 65:9-10
enriching it greatly.
God’s stream is filled with water,
for You prepare the earth
providing people with grain.
Proverbs 3:20
and the clouds dripped with dew.
Jeremiah 5:24
‘Let’s fear the Lord our God,
who gives the rain,
who guarantees to us the fixed weeks of the harvest.’
Jeremiah 10:13
the waters in the heavens are in turmoil,
and He causes the clouds to rise
from the ends of the earth.
He makes lightning for the rain
and brings the wind from His storehouses.
Hosea 14:5
he will blossom like the lily
and take root like the cedars of Lebanon.
Joel 2:23
in the Lord your God,
because He gives you the autumn rain
for your vindication.
He sends showers for you,
both autumn and spring rain
Amos 4:7
while there were still three months until harvest.
I sent rain on one city
but no rain on another.
One field received rain
while a field with no rain withered.
Matthew 5:45